Derivatives

mentalistic

During this period, he became a leading figure in US linguistics, replacing a mechanistic and behaviouristic view of language (based on the work of Bloomfield) with a mentalistic and generative approach.

Descartes took a strong mentalistic position, arguing that the mind operated according to its own principles and that it came stocked with innate ideas.

Convinced that psychology could be a wholly objective science, Watson called for reform in its content and its methods and for the rejection of mentalistic terms such as ‘mind ‘and ‘consciousness.’